To practise patience is the soul of thy glorifications: have patience, for that is the true glorification.

هیچ تسبیحی ندارد آن درج ** صبر کن الصبر مفتاح الفرج‏

No glorification hath such a (high) degree (as patience hath); have patience: patience is the key to relief (from pain).

صبر چون پول صراط آن سو بهشت ** هست با هر خوب یک لالای زشت‏

Patience is like the bridge Sirát, (with) Paradise on the other side: with every fair (boy) there is an ugly pedagogue.

تا ز لالا می‏گریزی وصل نیست ** ز انکه لالا را ز شاهد فصل نیست‏

So long as you flee from the pedagogue, there is no meeting (with the boy), because there is no parting of the handsome boy from the pedagogue.

تو چه دانی ذوق صبر ای شیشه دل ** خاصه صبر از بهر آن نقش چگل‏

What should you know of the (sweet) savour of patience, O you of brittle heart—especially, of patience for the sake of that Beauty of Chigil?

مرد را ذوق غزا و کر و فر ** مر مخنث را بود ذوق‏از ذکر3150

A man’s delight is in campaigns (for Islam) and in the glory and pomp (of war); pathico voluptas e pene est. [A man’s delight is in campaigns (for Islam) and in the glory and pomp (of war); a (passive) catamite’s delight is from the penis.]

جز ذکر نه دین او و ذکر او ** سوی اسفل برد او را فکر او

Nihil est religio et precatio ejus nisi penis: his thought has borne him down to the lowest depth. [His religion and his prayer (is) nothing but the penis: his thought has borne him down to the lowest depth. ]

گر بر آید بر فلک از وی مترس ** کاو بعشق سفل آموزید درس‏

Though he rise to the sky, be not afraid of him, for (it is only) in love of lowness (degradation) he has studied (and gained eminence).

او بسوی سفل می‏راند فرس ** گر چه سوی علو جنباند جرس‏

He gallops his horse towards lowness, albeit he rings the bell (proclaims that he is going) aloft.

از علمهای گدایان ترس چیست ** کان علمها لقمه‏ی نان را رهی است‏

What is there to fear from the flags of beggars?—for those flags are (but) a means for (getting) a mouthful of bread.